BLOOD AND ICE
By Robert Masello
New York: Bantam Books, (2009).
First edition, first printing.
Fine in a fine dust jacket.
Cover art by Stephen Youll.
SIGNED and dated (2009) upon publication by the author.
"Troubled journalist Michael Wilde takes on a commission to write a
feature about a remote research station deep in the frozen beauty of
Antarctica. On a diving expedition in the polar sea he discovers two
bodies encased in ice. The pair, a man and a woman chained together,
their dress from the nineteenth-century, are brought to the surface -
along with a trunk containing a strange, but sinister cargo. As the ice
around them begins to thaw, the mystery of these time-bound lovers
begins to unravel. Michael is gradually drawn into a horrific story that
starts in the London barracks in the 1850s and leads to the bloody
battlefields of the Crimea and the tragic Charge of the Light Brigade.
Now, in the Antarctic wastes, the Cavalry officer and his lover are
reawakened into a world where the midnight sun lasts for months, where
there's nowhere to hide and no place left for the living to run...In
this chilling supernatural thriller, spanning five continents and
several centuries, Robert Masello weaves together an extraordinary tale
of eternal life and undying love."--Fantastic Fiction.